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-DOMESTIC   MISSIONS, 

ferf  States  of  America. 


ISSION. 

ry   Bishop  of  Colorado. 


Kansas,  as 

was  on  Governor  Gilpin's  suggestion  that 
the  name  "Colorado  "  was  given,  a  Spanish 
word  simply  referring  to  * '  color, "  from  the 
great  Colorado  River  of  the  West.  A  few 
immigrants  led  by  rumors  of  gold  discoveries 
crossed  the  plains  in  1858  and  camped  near 
the  junction  of  Cherry  Creek  and  the  Platte 
and  at  other  points  further  south.  But  1859 
is  generally  given  as  the  date  of  settlement, 
when  there  was  a  large  immigration,  of 
whom  many  became  permanent  citizens. 
Denver  (Auraria,  West  Denver)  was  the  most 
important  * '  camp  "  of  that  year.  It  was  for 
tunate  for  the  success  and  permanency  of  the 
place  that  many  of  the  first  settlers  were  men 
of  great  intelligence,  foresight,  energy  and 
enterprise.  They  did  not  know  that  in  the 
straggling  village  they  were  building,  in 
and  near  what  proved  afterwards  to  be  the 
bed  of  the  Creek,  they  were  laying  the  foun 
dations  of  a  great  capital  of  an  important 
western  State. 

Church  work  was  not  begun  by  the  sending 
out  of  a  Missionary  of  the  Board.  The  Rev. 
John  H.  Kehler,  who  had  been  for  many 
years  Rector  of  the  Parish  of  Sheppards- 
town  in  Virginia,  arrived  in  Denver  the 
first  week  in  January,  1860.  His  first 
Services  were  held  in  a  small  log  cabin  on 
what  is  now  Holladay  street.  So  much  in 
terest  was  manifested  that  "  St.  John's 
Church  in  the  Wilderness  "  was  organized 
as  a  parish  on  January  17th,  and  regular  Ser 
vices  were  established  on  a  self-supporting 


ither "  Kehler,  so  he  was  ever 
ly  called,  retained  the  rector- 
;er  his  appointment  as  chaplain 

regiment  of  Colorado  Volunteers 

in  the  latter  part  of  1861.  After  his  term 
of  service,  spent  mostly  in  the  field  in  New 
Mexico,  he  returned  to  Denver,  where  he 
continued  to  reside,  much  beloved,  and 
serving  the  Church,  as  his  age  and  infirmities 
permitted,  until  1876,  when  he  removed  to 
Washington,  where  he  died  February  21st, 
1879.  From  1866  to  1876  he  was  a  member 
and  President  of  the  Standing  Committee. 

Bishop  Talbot,  Missionary  Bishop  of  the 
Northwest  from  1859  to  1865,  made  his  first 
visitation,  August,  1861.  He  was  surprised 
and  delighted  to  find  a  flourishing  parish  in 
this  city  of  the  plains,  maintaining  regular 
worship  in  a  rented  building,  humble  in 
character,  but  well  adapted  to  the  Services 
of  the  Church.  He  spent  the  entire  month 
in  Denver,  and  in  the  mining  camps  of  what 
were  subsequently  Gilpin  and  Clear  Creek 
Counties,  holding  Service  and  preaching  in 
Central  City,  Idaho  Springs,  Spanish  Bar, 
Golden,  Mountain  City,  Nevadaville,  etc. 
Central  City  was  the  only  point  at  which  in 
his  judgment  a  Missionary  should  then  be 
stationed. 

On  the  next  visitation  in  the  Summer  of 
1862  more  substantial  results  were  accom 
plished.  St.  John's  Parish  had  recently  be 
come  vacant.  The  congregation,  not  know 
ing  whither  to  look  for  a  Minister  to  supply 
the  place  of  their  much  loved  founder  who 
had  served  them  most  acceptably  for  more 
than  two  years,  were  becoming  discouraged 
and  demoralized.  They  quickly  rallied, 


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DOMESTIC  MISSIONS, 

Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America. 


THE  COLORADO  MISSION. 


V>r  o     •  * 

By  the   Rt.   Rev.  J.    F.   SPALDING,'  Missionary  Bishop  of  Colorado 


COLORADO  was  admitted  as  a  territory  of 
the  United  States  on  February  26th,  1861.  It 
had  been  known  previously,  while  a  part  of 
Kansas,  as  Pike's  Peak,  Jefferson,  etc.  It 
was  on  Governor  Gilpin's  suggestion  that 
the  name  "  Colorado  "  was  given,  a  Spanish 
word  simply  referring  to  "  color,"  from  the 
great  Colorado  River  of  the  West.  A  few 
immigrants  led  by  rumors  of  gold  discoveries 
crossed  the  plains  in  1858  and  camped  near 
the  junction  of  Cherry  Creek  and  the  Platte 
and  at  other  points  further  south.  But  1859 
is  generally  given  as  the  date  of  settlement, 
when  there  was  a  large  immigration,  of 
whom  many  became  permanent  citizens. 
Denver  (Auraria,  West  Denver)  was  the  most 
important ' '  camp  "  of  that  year.  It  was  for 
tunate  for  the  success  and  permanency  of  the 
place  that  many  of  the  first  settlers  were  men 
of  great  intelligence,  foresight,  energy  and 
enterprise.  They  did  not  know  that  in  the 
straggling  village  they  were  building,  in 
and  near  what  proved  afterwards  to  be  the 
bed  of  the  Creek,  they  were  laying  the  foun 
dations  of  a  great  capital  of  an  important 
western  State. 

Church  work  was  not  begun  by  the  sending 
out  of  a  Missionary  of  the  Board.  The  Rev. 
John  H.  Kehler,  who  had  been  for  many 
years  Rector  of  the  Parish  of  Sheppards- 
town  in  Virginia,  arrived  in  Denver  the 
first  week  in  January,  1860.  His  first 
Services  were  held  in  a  small  log  cabin  on 
what  is  now  Holladay  street.  So  much  in 
terest  was  manifested  that  "  St.  John's 
Church  in  the  Wilderness  "  was  organized 
as  a  parish  on  January  17th,  and  regular  Ser 
vices  were  established  on  a  self-supporting 


basis.  "Father"  Kehler,  so  he  was  ever 
affectionately  called,  retained  the  rector 
ship  till  after  his  appointment  as  chaplain 
of  the  first  regiment  of  Colorado  Volunteers 
in  the  latter  part  of  1861.  After  his  term 
of  service,  spent  mostly  in  the  field  in  New 
yiexico,  he  returned  to  Denver,  where  he 
continued  to  reside,  much  beloved,  and 
serving  the  Church,  as  his  age  and  infirmities 
aermitted,  until  1876,  when  he  removed  to 
Washington,  where  he  died  February  21st, 
1879.  From  1866  to  1876  he  was  a  member 
and  President  of  the  Standing  Committee. 

Bishop  Talbot,  Missionary  Bishop  of  the 
Northwest  from  1859  to  1865,  made  his  first 
visitation,  August,  1861.  He  was  surprised 
and  delighted  to  find  a  flourishing  parish  in 
this  city  of  the  plains,  maintaining  regular 
worship  in  a  rented  building,  humble  in 
character,  but  well  adapted  to  the  Services 
of  the  Church.  He  spent  the  entire  month 
in  Denver,  and  in  the  mining  camps  of  what 
were  subsequently  Gilpin  and  Clear  Creek 
Counties,  holding  Service  and  preaching  in 
Central  City,  Idaho  Springs,  Spanish  Bar, 
Golden,  Mountain  City,  Nevadaville,  etc. 
Central  City  was  the  only  point  at  which  in 
his  judgment  a  Missionary  should  then  be 
stationed. 

On  the  next  visitation  in  the  Summer  of 
1862  more  substantial  results  were  accom 
plished.  St.  John's  Parish  had  recently  be 
come  vacant.  The  congregation,  not  know 
ing  whither  to  look  for  a  Minister  to  supply 
the  place  of  their  much  loved  founder  who 
had  served  them  most  acceptably  for  more 
than  two  years,  were  becoming  discouraged 
and  demoralized.  They  quickly  rallied, 


THE  COLORADO  MISSION. 


however,  under  the  Bishop's  earnest,  en 
thusiastic  labors.  By  his  advice,  the  chapel 
of  the  Southern  Methodists,  the  only  place 
of  worship  in  town,  was  purchased  and  fitted 
up  for  Services,  at  a  cost  of  $2,500,  of  which, 
according  to  the  Bishop's  report,  the  con 
gregation  contributed  $1,000.  It  was  con 
secrated  on  Sunday,  July  20th,  1862.  To  sup 
ply  the  parish  till  a  rector  could  be  found, 
the  Rev.  Isaac  A.  Hagar,  Deacon,  was  called 
from  Nebraska.  Mr.  Hagar,  in  addition  to 
his  Services  in  Denver,  officiated  occasionally 
during  his  stay  at  Central  City  and  Golden. 
At  the  former,  including  surrounding  camps, 
was  a  population  of  nearly  five  thousand, 
at  the  latter  about  one  hundred.  Denver 
had  perhaps  three  thousand.  The  Bishop, 
after  holding  several  Services  and  much  per 
sonal  visiting  and  intercourse,  secured  the 
organization  of  St.  Paul's,  Central  City,  as  a 
parish,  the  earnest  churchmen  of  the  place 
having  obtained  subscriptions,  which  guaran 
teed  the  full  support  of  a  clergyman.  Soon 
after  he  sent  to  them  the  Rev.  Francis 
Granger,  who  became  and  was  for  two  or 
three  years  their  rector.  The  Bishop  visited 
all  the  places  where  he  had  been  the  year 
before,  and  also  the  Clear  Creek  valley  as 
far  as  Empire  and  Georgetown.  He  also 
made  an  extensive  journey  to  the  South  Park, 
visiting  Tarryal,  Montgomery,  Georgia, 
Buckskin,  California  Gulch  (on  which  is 
the  present  city  of  Leadville)  and  Brecken- 
ridge.  He  returned  by  way  of  the  Ute  Pass  and 
Colorado  City,  the  first  Capital  of  the  Terri 
tory,  where  he  held  Services.  He  learned  of 
small  settlements  further  south  on  the 
Fontaine  que  Bouille,  the  Huerfano  and  other 
streams,  but  his  engagement  to  consecrate 
the  church  in  Denver  prevented  his  visiting 
them.  Back  in  Denver,  for  a  week  or  more 
he  held  Services  every  evening,  "lecturing 
on  the  doctrines  and  principles  of  the 
Church."  Six  candidates  prepared  by  him 
were  confirmed. 

In  1863,  the  Bishop  made  another  visita 
tion  occupying  the  month  of  August.  He 
brought  with  him  the  Rev.  Wm.  O.  Jarvis, 
and  appointed  him  Missionary  at  Empire, 
Gold  Dust  and  Idaho — a  most  discouraging 
field,  for  the  early  promise  of  growth  was 
not  realized,  and  after  a  year  of  arduous 
labor,  the  Missionary  returned  to  the  east. 
The  Bishop  had  secured  the  Rev.  H.  B. 
Hitchings  to  succeed  Mr.  Hagar,  at  Denver, 
in  the  autumn  of  1862.  His  labors  had 


been  so  successful,  that  it  became  necessary 
to  enlarge  the  church,  giving  it  a  seating 
apacity  of  over  300.  It  was  opened  by  the 
Bishop  August  16th,  and  on  the  same  day 
Mr.  Hitchings  was  instituted  as  rector. 

Bishop  Talbot  was  again  in  Denver  and 
officiated  on  Sunday,  November  22d,  the 
same  year,  on  his  return  from  Utah  and  Ne 
vada.  This  was  his  last  visit,  until  the  con 
secration  of  Trinity  Memorial,  Denver,  Sep 
tember,  1875. 

The  Church  was  now  firmly  established  in 
the  two  most  important  centres,  Denver  and 
Central  City.  At  both  these,  parish  schools 
were  established.  The  two  rectors  held  oc- 
asional  Services  at  Golden,  Black  Hawk  and 
Nevada.  Mr.  Granger  having  resigned,  the 
Rev.  A.  B.  Jennings  was  secured  for  Central 

ity  in  August,  1865.  Such  was  the  work 
done  under  Bishop  Talbot's  Episcopate. 
It  well  illustrates  the  necessity  of  the 
Bishop's  presence  at  the  front. 

It  is  a  curious  fact,  illustrative  of  the 
character  of  new  mining  communities,  that 
nearly  half  of  the  places  visited  or  men 
tioned  by  the  Bishop  have  not  been  in  ex 
istence  for  the  past  ten  years  and  more,  and 
some  of  the  best  of  these  towns  are  not  so 
populous  now  as  when  he  first  visited  them. 
His  judgment  as  to  the  future  of  the  coun 
try  has,  however,  been  for  the  most  part  veri 
fied. 

TheRt.  Rev.  Geo.  M.  Randall,  elected  Mis 
sionary  Bishop  in  October  and  consecrated 
December  28th,  1865,  arrived  in  Denver, 
June  llth,  1866.  His  jurisdiction  included 
Montana,  Idaho  and  Wyoming.  In  1867 
Idaho  and  Montana  were  assigned  to  Bishop 
Tuttle,  and  New  Mexico  was  at  the  same 
time  given  to  Bishop  Randall.  He  entered 
upon  his  work  with  great  zeal  and  en 
thusiasm.  The  Rev.  Messrs.  Kehler,  Hitch 
ings  and  Jennings  were  in  the  field.  He 
brought  out  the  Rev.  Wm.  A.  Fuller, 
Deacon,  and  placed  him  at  Nevadaville,  two 
miles  above  Central  City.  It  was  here  that  the 
painful  scene  was  witnessed  on  his  entering 
the  town  on  a  Sunday  afternoon,  of  a  man 
shot  dead  in  the  street  in  front  of  a  saloon. 
By  the  Bishop's  liberal  aid  and  the  earnest 
efforts  of  the  people,  a  church  and  parsonage 
were  completed ;  and  on  entering  the  place 
again  on  a  Sunday  the  following  year,  the 
saloons  were  closed.  All  was  quiet  in  the 
streets ;  the  sound  of  the  church-going  bell 
was  echoing  through  the  valley,  bidding  the 


TEE  COLORADO  MISSION. 


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people  to  prayer.  This  was  long  after  one 
of  the  Bishop's  best  illustrations  of  the 
beneficent  influence  of  the  Missionary.  How 
many  like  instances  might  be  recorded ! 

The  Bishop  during  his  first  summer  visited 
all  the  points  seen  by  his  predecessor  and  a  few 
others  on  the  Arkansas  and  its  tributaries. 
Going  east  for  the  winter  to  secure  men  and 
means,  he  came  back  in  the  spring  with  the 
"army  of  one"  he  had  succeeded  in  "re 
cruiting,"  the  Rev.  F.  Byrne.  He  met  on 
his  way  back  the  "first  army,"  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Fuller,  returning.  This  was  the  Clergyman 
who  made  so  narrow  an  escape  from  the 
Indians  when  they  attacked  the  stage-coach 
in  the  Platte  valley.  Soon  after,  however. 
1867-69,  he  secured  a  few  additional  clergy 
men — the  Rev.  Messrs.  Lynd,  for  Golden, 
Whitehead,  for  Black  Hawk,  and  Winslow, 
for  Empire  and  Georgetown. 

On  April  1st,  1869,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hitchings 
having  resigned,  the  Bishop  assumed  the 
rectorship  of  St.  John's,  Denver.  Here  he 
greatly  needed,  and  for  much  of  the  time  em 
ployed,  an  assistant.  Still  he  was  able  to  spend 
most  of  his  Sundays  in  the  city.  On  Sun 
day  afternoons  he  was  in  the  habit  of  driving 
ten  miles  to  hold  Services  alternately  at  Lit 
tleton  and  Baldwinsville.  For  these  little 
Missions  he  ultimately  built  chapels. 

In  1868  and  onwards  the  work  was  con 
siderably  extended.  Its  progress  will  best 
be  seen  by  the  names  and  dates  of  the 
churches  consecrated:  Christ,  Nevada, Sep 
tember  17th,  1867;  Emmanuel,  Empire,  Sep 
tember  18th,  1867;  St.  Mark's,  Cheyenne, 
August  23d,  1868 ;  Calvary,  Golden,  Septem 
ber  23d,  1868;  St.  Peter's,  Pueblo,  June  27th, 
1869;  Calvary,  Idaho,  July  15th,  1869;  St. 
Matthew's,  Laramie,  September  21st,  1869; 
St.  Paul's,  Littleton,  April  2d,  1871 ;  Grace, 
Georgetown,  May  9th,  1872;  Heavenly  Rest, 
Baldwinsville,  March  29th,  1873.  Missions 
were  established  at  Greeley,  Canon  City 
(where  an  unfortunate  attempt  was  made — 
not  the  fault  of  the  Bishop — to  found  a 
school),  Ula  and  Trinidad.  In  Pueblo, 
Georgetown,  Cheyenne,  Central  City,  Golden, 
parish  schools  were  carried  on  for  a  time, 
until  the  public  schools  became  so  good  as 
to  render  them  impracticable. 

No  sooner  had  the  Bishop  entered  upon 
his  work  than  he  began  to  make  plans  for 
the  establishment  of  schools  of  a  higher  grade 
for  the  youth  of  both  sexes.  In  the  autumn 
of  1866  he  purchased  a  small  house  in  the 


outskirts  of  Denver  with  a  view  of  opening 
therein  a  girls'  school.  In  the  following 
year  this  plan  was  abandoned,  on  the  citi 
zens  of  the  city  subscribing  the  money  to 
purchase  five  lots  in  a  more  central  location. 
On  these  he  erected  in  1867  the  central  part 
of  the  present  Wolfe  Hall,  at  a  cost,  for  the 
building  itself,  of  $18,000.  Mr.  John  D. 
Wolfe  gave  the  most  largely  towards  the 
enterprise,  and  the  school  was  called  by  his 
name.  The  Bishop  with  his  family  took  up 
his  residence  in  the  school  and  opened  it  in 
the  autumn  of  1868  with  seventy  pupils.  In 
1873  he  added  a  wing  costing  four  or  five 
thousand  dollars.  Even  in  his  day  the 
school  was  a  most  important  accessory  to 
the  Missionary  work,  and  was  mostly  self- 
supporting. 

While  building  Wolfe  Hall  he  was  also 
planning  for  a  school  for  boys  and  young 
men  who  might  be  looking  to  the  Ministry. 
His  purpose  was  in  1866-67  to  accept  a  large 
block  of  land  on  Capitol  Hill  in  Denver 
that  had  been  offered  him,  and  build  upon 
it  a  Clergy  and  Bishop's  house,  a  school  for 
boys  with  a  training  school  of  theology  and 
a  cathedral  chapel,  extending  the  buildings 
beyond  the  chapel  in  the  centre,  as  the 
needs  should  require.  His  plan,  as  detailed 
in  his  reports  of  1866  and  1867,  was  well  con 
ceived.  The  location  was  the  best  possible. 
There  is  no  block  in  that  part  of  Denver 
that  is  not  now  worth  at  least  $1QO,000. 
We  can  now  conceive  no  good  reasons,  as 
then  existing,  for  changing  it.  But  we  find 
him  in  1868  accepting  a  deed  for  school  pur 
poses  of  twelve  acres  in  the  vicinity  of 
Golden  conditioned  on  a  collegiate  school 
being  maintained  thereon;  and  beginning 
the  erection  of  a  building  seventy-two  by 
thirty-five  feet,  two  stories  high,  with  Man 
sard  roof,  to  contain  living  apartments, 
school-room  for  thirty,  recitation-rooms,  and 
alcoves  for  twenty  pupils.  Misfortune  seems 
from  the  first  to  have  attended  the  under 
taking.  On  the  early  morning '  of  Thanks 
giving  Day,  November  24th,  a  terrible  hurri 
cane  blew  off  the  roof,  and  the  walls  fell  to 
the  ground  a  mass  of  ruins.  The  Bishop  dur 
ing  Service  in  Denver  heard  of  the  disaster. 
The  benediction  given,  he  drove  hastily 
twelve  miles  to  the  spot.  Standing  in  the 
midst  of  the  ruins,  in  no  way  discouraged, 
he  said,  "We  must  rise  and  rebuild."  He 
wrote  appeals  to  his  friends.  He  went  east 
as  usual  to  spend  the  winter  in  solicitations. 


THE  COLORADO  MISSION. 


Mr.  George  A.  Jarvis,  who  had  previously 
given  $5,000,  on  which  it  was  named  Jarvis 
Hall,  added  $2,000;  Mr.  John  D.  Wolfe 
gave  $1,000;  a  lady,  $500;  Citizens  of  Den 
ver,  $450.  So  the  gifts  came  in,  sufficient 
for  the  purpose.  The  ruins  were  nearly  val 
ueless.  The  cost  of  building  and  rebuild 
ing  was  $17,873.42.  On  September  17th, 
1870,  the  school  which  had  been  carried  on 
by  the  Rev.  Win.  J.  Lynd  in  a  rented  house 
in  Golden,  was  opened  on  "  College  Hill  " 
with  appropriate  Services.  Its  patronage 
was  not  so  large  as  had  been  expected. 
Never  in  Golden  was  it  self-supporting. 

In  1870  the  Bishop  obtained  from  the 
Territorial  Legislature  $3,872.45  for  a  School 
)f  Mines.  It  was  built  that  year  near  Jarvis 
Hall,  was  about  half  its  size,  and  cost 
$4,500.  A  professor  was  employed,  but  the 
school  was  little  more  than  a  scientific  de 
partment  of  Jarvis  Hall. 

The  training  of  young  men  for  the  Ministry 
on  the  ground  where  they  were  to  labor  was 
always  an  object  dear  to  the  Bishop's  heart. 
There  were  some  students  in  Jarvis  Hall 
looking  to  the  Ministry.  His  appeals  for 
means  for  his  boys'  school  were  also,  if  not 
primarily,  appeals  for  a  school  that  would 
educate  young  men  to  become  Candidates 
for  Holy  Orders.  And  they  were  every 
where  exceedingly  effective.  In  1870  Mr. 
Jarvis  sent  him  $10,000,  as  an  endowment 
of  Jarvis  Hall  with  the  special  object  of  ed 
ucating  young  men  with  a  view  to  the  sacred 
Ministry  of  the  Church,  the  income  to  be 
used  for  this  object,  only  after  it  should 
reach  the  value  of  at  least  $20,000.  Con 
cerning  this  noble  gift,  Bishop  Randall  says 
in  his  report  for  1870:  "The  thanks  of 
the  whole  Church  are  due  to  George  A. 
Jarvis,  Esq.,  who  generously  gave  $5,000,  at 
the  outset  of  our  undertaking,  towards  the 
erection  of  the  edifice,  together  with  $500 
to  aid  in  furnishing  it.  On  hearing  of  the 
destruction  of  this  building  he  added  $2,000 
to  his  first  gift,  and  now  that  the  Hall  is 
nearly  finished  he  has  crowned  his  previous 
benefactions  by  an  endowment  of  $10,000 
for  the  benefit  of  the  institution.  This  sum 
is  to  be  invested  for  the  purpose  of  accumu 
lation  until  it  shall  amount  to  at  least 
$20,000,  when  the  income  may  be  used  for 
the  benefit  of  the  school."  The  Bishop  also 
secured  a  theological  library  of  over  2,000 
volumes,  from  the  Rev.  Ethan  Allen,  D.D., 
the  Jarvis  family,  the  Rev.  Samuel  Babcock, 


D.D.,  and  others.  Full  of  the  idea  of  a 
Divinity  school,  but  not  knowing  whence 
were  to  come  the  means,  he  attended  the 
General  Convention  in  Baltimore  in  1871. 
It  was  there  that  Nathan  Matthews,  Esq., 
pledged  him  $10,000  for  the  building  of 
Matthews  Hall.  It  was  erected  in  1872, 
and  opened  September  19th,  with  an  able  and 
learned  professor,  the  Rev.  R.  Harding,  and 
six  or  seven  students.  There  were  rooms  for 
twelve  or  fourteen  students,  for  chapel, 
library  and  recitations.  The  three  schools 
nade  an  imposing  appearance  as  seen  on 
the  hill  east  of  the  village  and  from  the 
railway.  They  seemed  the  beginning  of  a 
University. 

But  the  location  was  unfortunate.  There 
was  no  water,  and  no  means  of  getting  water 
for  irrigation.  The  deep  wells  were  dry 
four  months  in  the  year.  In  so  bleak  a  place 
it  was  not  easy  to  create  a  home-like  feel 
ing.  The  schools  could  not  here  be  made 
adequately  successful.  Their  removal  would 
become  a  necessity,  and  yet,  to  remove  them 
would  be  to  forfeit  them  under  the  condi 
tions  of  the  title.  The  good  Bishop  grew 
rapidly  old  under  his  accumulated  burdens. 
In  the  summer  of  1873,  while  enlarging 
Wolfe  Hall  and  building  an  Episcopal  resi 
dence,  he  made  two  of  his  longest  and  most 
tedious  and  hazardous  journeys,  through 
New  Mexico  to  La  Messilla  and  El  Paso,  in 
the  south,  and  through  Wyoming  to  the 
Shoshone  Indian  Agency  in  the  north. 
In  the  latter  he  narrowly  escaped  being  in 
an  Indian  massacre  at  Lander  City.  Wearied 
and  exhausted  he  came  home  to  install  his 
fifth  principal  of  Jarvis  Hall,  to  open  his 
schools,  and  then,  if  possible,  to  get  a  little 
rest.  But  the  rest  for  him  was  not  here; 
not  in  Wolfe  Hall;  not  in  the  Bishop's 
house,  nearly  completed.  He  was  very  ill, 
and  growing  worse.  Typhoid  pneumonia  set 
in.  There  was  no  help,  no  respite.  The 
rest  was  to  be  in  Paradise.  A  great  man,  a 
great  Bishop,  a  great  Missionary  was  fallen. 
He  made  some  mistakes.  Who  does  not? 
He  was  over-sanguine  about  the  growth  of 
the  country  and  its  towns.  But  it  was  this 
sanguine  temperament  that  gave  him  en 
thusiasm  in  his  work.  He  entailed  tremen 
dous  burdens  of  responsibility  upon  his  suc 
cessor.  But  all  must  bear  heavy  burdens 
who  would  do  the  work  of  CHRIST.  He  did 
in  his  day  a  great  work  which  will  live  to 
praise  him  and  to  biess  many  generations. 


THE  COLORADO  MISSION. 


An  old  man  when  sent,  ever  youthful  in 
spirit,  ever  working  at  a  rate  that  would  be 
appalling  to  most,  young  or  old,  he  is  an  ex 
ample  the  Church  ought  not  to  forget.  His 
biography  should  be  written  for  the  instruc 
tion  and  inspiration  of  the  young  Mission 
aries  of  the  future. 

Bishop  Spalding,  consecrated  Decem 
ber  31st,  1873,  arrived  with  his  family 
in  Denver,  February  27th,  1874.  A  cor 
dial  welcome  greeted  us  in  the  city  and 
in  all  parts  of  the  jurisdiction.  Every 
thing  was  done  that  could  be  to  make  us 
feel  at  home.  My  first  official  act  was  to 
meet  and  confer  with  the  vestry  of  St. 
John's,  and  next,  on  the  first  Sunday,  to 
preach  and  confirm  a  class  of  sixteen,  and 
administer  the  Holy  Communion  in  St. 
John's  Church.  The  following  week,  an 
appeal  to  the  churchmen  of  Denver  was 
prepared  and  circulated  for  a  church  to  be 
called  Trinity,  as  a  memorial  to  Bishop  Ran 
dall,  for  which  I  had  received  $1,000  dollars 
from  Miss  Abby  R.  Loring,  of  Boston.  This 
appeal  brought  in  at  Easter  about  $1,600, 
and  the  church  was  built  during  the  summer. 
Jarvis  Hall  was  visited  and  a  change  made 
in  the  principalship,  and  then  was  under 
taken  my  first  systematic  visitation  of  the 
jurisdiction. 

The  work  was  greatly  suffering  for  the 
want  of  oversight.  The  strong  hand  that 
had  controlled  every  detail  of  school  and 
other  management  having  been  withdrawn, 
there  could  not  but  be  many  things  requiring 
attention.  Of  the  Clergy  these  only  were 
at  their  posts:  the  Rev.  Walter  H.  Moore  at 
Denver,  the  Rev.  L.  H.  Strycker  at  Golden, 
the  Rev.  R.  Harding,  Deacon,  Instructor  in 
Matthews  Hall,  the  Rev.  Francis  Byrne  at 
Nevada  and  Idaho,  the  Rev.  M.  F.  Sorenson 
at  Colorado  Springs,  the  Rev.  H.  M.  Hoge 
in  Pleasant  Valley,  and  the  Rev.  J.  A.  M. 
La  Tourrette,  Post  Chaplain  at  Fort  Lyon ; 
and  the  three  last  were  not  yet  transferred 
to  the  jurisdiction.  All  other  Missions  were 
vacant.  All  the  work  was  in  a  limited  area 
on  this  side  the  main  range  of  the  mountains. 

Denver  had  a  population  of  about  12,000; 
Colorado  about  40,000.  The  financial  panic 
struck  the  East  just  before  my  consecration. 
It  reached  Colorado  the  following  year.  It 
prevailed  here  till  1878.  The  working  of 
mines  depending  upon  outside  capital,  the 
development  of  the  physical  resources  of  the 
country  went  on  but  slowly.  During  part  of 


this  time  the  plague  of  locusts  devastated 
the  farms,  making  agriculture  very  precari 
ous.  Little  advance  could  be  made  in 
Church  work.  So  much  was  to  be  done  in 
securing  what  had  been  gained  and  strength 
ening  the  foundations  already  laid,  that  it 
was  best,  as  generally,  to  "make  haste 
slowly."  Still  there  has  been  no  year  of  the 
ten  years  past  without  its  substantial  gains. 
It  would  be  interesting  to  note  the  pleasant 
incidents  connected  with  the  extension  of  the 
Church  into  new  regions  where  it  had  been 
unknown,  and  the  marked  benefits  attend 
ing  our  Missionaries'  labors.  Our  limits 
allow  only  a  summary.  In  1874  the  stone 
churches  at  Central  City  and  Colorado 
Springs,  costing  each  about  $10,000,  were 
completed,  with  Trinity  Memorial,  Denver. 
In  1875  Fort  Collins,  the  capital  of  Larimer 
County  and  of  a  fine  agricultural  district, 
was  permanently  occupied,  and  the  Church 
at  Greeley,  a  town  of  like  character,  built. 
In  1876  we  built  Christ  Church,  Canon  City, 
having  compromised  amicably  a  great  diffi 
culty  about  a  large  building  for  church  and 
school  in  the  vicinity  of  the  town,  by  its 
abandonment  and  use  toward  the  church  in 
the  city.  Work  was  begun  in  North  Denver, 
and  also  at  Rosita  and  church  buildings 
undertaken.  In  1877  we  entered  with  a 
Missionary  the  San  Luis  Valley  and  estab 
lished  Services  at  Saguache,  Del  Norte,  and 
Lake  City,  and  at  the  last  two  places  secured 
chapels.  Emmanuel,  West  Denver,  was  also 
completed.  In  1878  I  visited  Silver  Cliff 
and  Leadville  and  began  more  permanent 
work  at  Boulder,  placing  the  present  Mis 
sionary  in  charge.  In  1879  churches  were 
built  at  Ouray,  Silver  Cliff  and  Boulder.  In 
1880  a  Mission  was  planted  at  Rico,  and 
churches  built  at  Leadville  andManitou,  and 
the  cathedral  of  Denver  commenced.  I  had 
secured  the  lots  for  the  cathedral  in  1876. 
In  1881  we  rebuilt  All  Saints,  Nortfi  Denver, 
and  occupied  Durango  and  Gunnison  and 
Longmont,  and  built,  or  began  to  build, 
churches,  and  had  a  Missionary  at  Brecken- 
ridge  and  Pitkin.  In  1882  we  organized  at 
South  Pueblo,  Alamosa,  Buena  Vista  and 
Alma,  and  built  in  1883  at  South  Pueblo, 
Fort  Collins,  Villa  Grove  and  Alamosa,  and 
began  work  at  Silverton.  During  the  first 
five  years  we  gained  three,  and  the  last  five 
years  twelve  parsonages. 

Our    most    important    work    of    church 
building  was  the  Denver  Cathedral     It  was 


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THE  COLORADO  MISSION. 


begun  in  July,  1880.  The  corner-stone  jwas 
laid  on  St.  Matthew's  Day.  The  opemng 
Service  was  held  on  November  8th, 
It  is  built  of  brick  and  stone  in  Romanesque 
style,  with  porch,  nave,  transepts,  aisles 
and  chancel.  We  needed  a  large  church 
and  Gothic  seemed  beyond  our  means.  The 
old  parish  had  still  seven  of  five  hundred 
and  fifty  city  lots  not  yet  sold,  and  from 
these  $25,000  was  realized.  Had  these  city 
lots  been  vested  in  the  Bishop  and  his  suc 
cessors,  we  should  still  have  had  most  of 
them,  and  a  foundation  for  a  cathedral  and 
all  needed  endowments.  They  are  worth 
now  about  two  millions.  The  building, 
with  its  ample  grounds,  including  organ  and 
gifts  of  expensive  memorial  windows,  cost 
about  $115,000.  It  is  liberally  seated  for 
1,200.  The  basement,  entirely  above  ground 
except  at  the  east  end,  contains  a  chapel 
seating  200,  a  large  Sunday-school  room, 
Bible-class  rooms,  rooms  for  choir  practice, 
etc.  The  congregation  fills  the  church  on 
Sundays.  The  Sunday-school  and  Bible- 
classes  are  large.  Unfortunately  there  is  a 
debt  of  $16,000,  which  it  is  hoped  will  soon 
be  paid.  It  is  surely  a  blessed  thing  that 
we  have  been  enabled  in  GOD'S  good  provi 
dence  to  build  up  in  the  capital  and  See  city 
such  a  centre  of  work  and  influence.  Trin 
ity  Memorial  Church  soon  felt  the  impulse 
of  this  grand  success  and  was  enlarged  in 
1883  to  more  than  double  its  former  capacity ; 
and  already  there  is  a  call  for  the  building 
of  a  church  on  lots  secured  some  seven 
years  ago  in  a  location  that  will  be  nearly 
as  good  as  that  of  the  cathedral — the  lots 
are  now  worth  $10,000  or  $12,000 — where,  if 
only  a  church  could  be  erected,  a  strong 
self-supporting  congregation  would  soon 
be  gathered.  In  no  way  could  church 
work  be  so  strengthened  now,  as  by  a  me 
morial  gift  that  would  secure  this  church  so 
long  waited  for  and  so  certain,  if  built,  of 
success. 

Another  very  important  work  of  the  last 
few  years  was  the  founding  of  St,  Luke's 
Hospital,  Denver.  "We  had  long  felt  the 
need  of  such  an  institution.  Many  invalids 
come  to  Colorado  as  a  sanitarium.  Many 
come,  alas,  too  late.  Their  funds  exhausted, 
often  without  friends  here,  the  county  alms- 
house  is  almost  their  only  resource.  There 
are  also  the  many  accident  cases  on  the  rail 
ways  and  in  the  mines,  in  which  surgical 
treatment  and  the  best  nursing  are  required. 


If  a  good  Church  hospital  could  be 
once  started,  we  felt  that  it  would  be 
in  large  measure  self-supporting  and  grow 
with  the  growth  of  the  city  and  country. 
There  was  no  Protestant  hospital,  none  of 
any  kind  except  that  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Sisters  and  the  poor-house.  But  the  more  we 
felt  the  need,  the  more  difficult  seemed  the 
undertaking,  multiplying  and  pressing  as 
were  the  calls  of  other  work.  At  last  Prov 
idence  opened  the  way  and  an  occasion  for 
action.  A  lady  residing  in  Denver  had  be 
queathed  a  small  property  worth  $1,800  for 
a  hospital  to  be  under  the  control  and  man 
agement  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  She 
died  in  January,  1881.  A  sermon  in  the 
cathedral  soon  after  excited  quite  general  in 
terest.  The  Board  of  Managers,  all  church 
men,  was  organized  February  12th.  After 
various  ineffectual  efforts  to  secure  a  site  by 
gift  or  purchase  with  a  view  of  building,  the 
Grand  View  Hotel  and  block  of  four  acres, 
on  the  Boulevard,  a  principal  street  in 
North  Denver,  was  purchased  at  $7, 900,  $900 
being  for  the  furniture.  $2,400  was  raised 
by  subscription  and  paid  down.  Two  notes 
of  $1,500  and  $4,000  were  given,  bearing  in 
terest  at  seven  per  cent.  The  first  has  been 
paid,  so  that  the  debt  is  but  $4,000.  The 
hospital  was  opened  the  last  of  June  of  that 
year.  During  the  first  year,  some  $2, 300  was 
raised  and  expended  in  repairs  and  furnish 
ings.  Three  free  cots  at  a  cost  for  each  of 
$300  a  year  have  been,  till  the  present  year, 
provided,  mostly  by  eastern  friends.  More 
than  700  patients  have  been  treated.  A 
Ladies'  Auxiliary  composed  of  the  church- 
women  of  the  Denver  congregations  is  inde 
fatigable  in  its  exertions  for  the  support  and 
good  management  of  the  Hospital.  At  least 
six  free  cots  are  required  by  the  demands  of 
charity,  and  would  insure  self-support,  as 
all  patients  pay  who  can.  Efforts  are  mak 
ing  for  two  endowments  of  $3,000  each. 
This  work  of  charity  undertaken  in  faith, 
needs  and  richly  deserves  liberal  aid.  The 
hospital  property  is  worth  $12,000. 

The  Church  schools  have  from  the  first 
laid  upon  me  the  weightiest  of  all  my  bur 
dens  of  care  and  responsibility.  After 
Bishop  Randall's  death,  discipline  was  re 
laxed  and  patronage  became  small.  Debts 
had  accrued  and  were  accumulating.  For 
two  years,  Wolfe  Hall  and  Jarvis  Hall  fell 
far  short  of  meeting  expenses,  as  had  indeed 
always  been  the  case  with  the  latter.  From 


THE  COLORADO  MISSION. 


1876  to  1882,  however,  Wolfe  Hall  was 
brought  up  to  so  high  a  state  of  excellence, 
that  its  earnings  were  of  large  assistance  in 
enlargements  made  in  1879-80,  costing 
$18,000 — as  much  as  the  original  buildings. 
Annual  gifts,  of  $1,500  from  Miss  Wolfe 
and  smaller  offerings  from  others,  enabled 
us  to  make  these  great  and  necessary  im 
provements  without  debt.  The  school  has 
this  year,  under  Miss  F.  M.  Buchan  as  Prin 
cipal,  been  brought  up  to  a  much  higher 
standard  than  ever  before,  intellectually, 
morally  and  religiously.  It  is  more  true 
of  it  now  than  ever  that  it  is  among  the 
very  best  and  most  effective  of  our  Mission 
ary  agencies. 

The  schools  in  Golden  never  met  the  ex 
pectations  of  their  friends.  The  School  of 
Mines  was  in  1874  given  back  to  a  Board 


$8,903.72.  On  Matthews  Hall,  $6,430.51. 
On  the  Library,  $989.34.  Total,  $16,323.57. 
It  is  a  question  whether  we  could  have 
secured  more,  had  the  amount  of  insurance 
been  greater.  The  best  part  of  the  library 
had  been  removed  to  Denver.  The  com 
panies  had  the  option  to  pay  or  rebuild. 
The  agent  appointed  to  estimate  the  loss 
was  of  opinion  that  the  buildings  could 
be  put  in  as  good  condition  as  before  for 
about  the  sum  they  were  insured  for.  But 
he  recommended  payment,  and  the  money 
was  worth  more  to  us  than  the  buildings. 
The  next  year,  with  the  approval  of  all  the 
largest  benefactors  of  the  schools  and  the 
Clergy  and  laity  in  Convocation,  it  was  de 
cided  to  remove  them  to  Denver. 

The  cost  of  the  present  Jarvis  Hall  build 
ings  and  grounds  was  $13,740.85.     This  in- 


WOLFE  HALL. 


of  Trustees  of  the  Territory  created  by  the 
Legislature  to  receive  it.  We  were  without 
the  large  means  necessary  to  make  it  a  real 
school  of  mines, such  as  was  demanded  by  the 
mining  interests.  The  placing  it  in  the 
hands  of  a  Board  that  would  have  the  ample 
resources  of  the  State  to  make  it  a  success 
met  with  general  approval.  The  Territory 
remunerated  us  iu  part  for  what  it  had  cost 
beyond  the  sum  appropriated  from  the  ter 
ritorial  treasury. 

In  1874  Matthews  Hall  had  seven  students, 
but  only  two  of  the  scholarships  that  were 
relied  on  to  support  them  could  be  secured. 
There  were  no  funds  for  the  professor's  sal 
ary.  Five  of  the  young  men  were  ordained. 
The  professor  went  east.  Thenceforth  the 
few  theological  students  were  teachers  in 
Jarvis  Hall. 

On  the  4th  and  6th  of  April,  1878,  Jarvis 
and  Matthews  Halls  were  destroyed  by  fire. 
The  insurance  received  on  Jarvis  Hall  was 


eludes  heating  apparatus  and  some  furni 
ture.  There  are  two  buildings,  one  brick, 
the  other  frame.  Having  learned  by  experi 
ence  that  "brick  and  mortar  "  in  a  building 
does  not  make  a  school,  we  sdught  a  central 
location  and  built  according  to  the  probable 
needs  of  the  first  years.  I  also  secured  by  a 
fortunate  purchase  some  land  for  the  future 
requirements  of  the  school,  the  value  of 
which  is  now  said  to  be  about  $40,000. 
With  the  man  at  the  head  who  can  make  a 
school,  and  there  are  not  many  good  teachers 
who  can  do  it,  the  means  will  doubtless  be 
forthcoming  for  the  new  buildings  that  will 
be  requisite.  And  we  trust  we  have  found 
the  man  in  the  Dean  of  the  cathedral.  He  is 
a  born  teacher.  He  has  had  years  of  success 
ful  experience.  He  knows  how  to  manage 
boys,  while  securing  their  esteem  and  affec 
tion.  He  is  ably  supported  by  W.  H.  Smiley, 
B.A.  (Harvard),  a  splendid  teacher,  and  other 
competent  assistants. 


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THE  COLORADO  MISSION. 


Matthews  Hall  has  been  rebuilt  on  ground 
contiguous  to  the  cathedral  and  Jarvis  Hall, 
under  an  arrangement  which  makes  it  the 
residence  of  the  Bishop  in  his  capacity  of 
President  of  the  Divinity  School  and  Pro 
fessor  of  Theology.  One  student  is  a  teach 
er  in  Jarvis  Hall.  Two  others  who  expect 
to  study  for  the  Ministry  will  live  at  their 
homes,  and  come  to  Matthews  Hall  for  as 
signment  of  studies  and  recitations. 

The  Jarvis  Hall  endowment  was  supposed 
at  first  to  be  an  endowment  of  Jarvis  Hall. 
Its  object  was  afterwards  denned  in  a  letter 
of  the  donor  published  in  our  Journal  of 
Convocation  for  1 878.  This  having  been  sub 
sequently  thought  to  be  too  indefinite,  the 
donor's  wish  has  been  scrupulously  regarded, 
and  its  income  is  considered  as  only  appli 
cable  to  candidates  for  Holy  Orders  and 
students  of  theology.  It  was  found  in  1874 
to  be  in  real  estate  and  notes  vshich  on  fore 
closure  gave  us  the  real  estate  that  secured 
them.  Much  of  this  land  is  scarcely  more 
valuable  now  than  when  purchased  twelve 
years  or  more  ago.  But  fortunately  that 
part  of  it  situated  on  Capitol  Hill  has  greatly 
appreciated.  Strong  pressure  was  brought 
upon  the  Bishop  to  sell,  at  a  time  when  the 
lots  were  worth  but  $400  each,  and  again  a 
year  or  two  after  when  they  had  increased  to 
$1, 200.  At  the  risk  of  incurring  displeasure 
no  effort  was  made  to  sell,  and  they  are  now 
worth  from  $2,500  to  $3,000  each.  Taxes 
on  these  lands  for  1882  were  $835. 72.  They 
are  more  for  1883.  We  have  always  had  one 
or  more  theological  students  needing  aid. 
Four  lots  sold  some  years  ago  have  enabled 
us  to  pay  taxes,  and  to  afford  what  aid  was 
necessary  in  theological  education.  One 
or  two  constant  friends  east  have  assisted 
in  this  cause,  so  that  no  worthy  postulant 
has  been  rejected.  We  could  easily  find 
abundance  of  candidates  on  the  promise  of 
gratuitous  theological  education.  But  we 
want  none  but  the  best.  They  must  be  able 
and  thoroughly  educated  young  Ministers 
who  would  succeed  in  this  Western  country. 

It  remains  to  give  some  statistics  of  ten 
years'  growth  and  then  some  plans  for  the 
future. 

In  1873  the  number  of  Church  families 
reported  was  360;  in  1883  it  was  1,921; 
increase,  433  per  cent.  The  number  of  souls 
for  whom  the  Clergy  were  caring  was,  at  the 
respective  dates,  620  and  13,141;  increase, 
2,019  per  cent.  The  infants  baptized  were, 


in  1873,  117;  in  1883,  390;  increase,  233 
per  cent.  Of  adults,  in  the  years  respec 
tively,  17  and  61;  increase,  258  per  cent. 
In  1873  there  were  confirmed  48;  in  1883, 
127.  Since  June  1st,  20  more  have  been  con 
firmed,  making  the  number  for  the  last  year 
147;  but  these  are  not  counted,  not  being 
yet  reported.  Without  these  the  increase  is 
164  per  cent.  In  the  ten  years  previous  to 
1874,  466  were  confirmed.  From  then  to 
June  1st,  1883,  1,081 ;  increase  131  per  cent. 
The  gain  in  the  number  of  communicants  is 
also  especially  gratifying.  There  were  re 
ported  in  1873,  550;  in  1883,  2,112— an  in 
crease  of  284  per  cent.  So  of  Sunday-school 
teachers  and  scholars:  In  1873  the  report 
gave  658;  in  1883,  2,082— a  gain  of  216  per 
cent. 

My  ordinations  to  the  Priesthood  and 
Diaconate  number  32.  There  had  been  pre 
viously  ordained  in  and  for  Colorado,  13 — 
an  increase  of  146  per  cent.  I  found  here 
12  churches;  we  now  report  32 — increase, 
166  per  cent.  Three  of  those  built  before 
1874  are  unused ;  none  built  since  are  as  yet 
unserviceable.  It  must  be  expected  that  the 
usual  proportion — not  greater  than  in  eastern 
dioceses — will,  in  time,  from  the  decay  of 
towns  and  changes  of  population,  become 
useless.  There  were,  ten  years  ago,  two 
rectories,  omitting  one  that  was  subsequently 
alienated  and  lost  by  the  vestry ;  there  are 
now  1 6 — a  gain  of  700  per  cent.  The  number 
of  sittings  in  our  churches  at  the  former 
date  was  1,600;  at  the  latter  date,  8,281— 
an  increase  of  417  per  cent.  I  found  seven 
clergymen  at  work  in  the  jurisdiction. 
There  were  two  or  three  others  not  belong 
ing  to  us  or  not  employed.  We  report  now 
28 — a  gain  of  300  per  cent.  The  number  of 
parishes  and  Missions  was  19.  It  is  now  53 
— per  cent,  of  increase,  179.  The  offerings 
for  all  purposes  in  the  jurisdiction  have  in 
creased  in  much  greater  proportion.  They 
were,  1873,  $5,086;  in  1883,  $52,509— a  gain 
of  932  per  cent.  The  value  of  churches  and 
rectories  was,  at  the  first  date,  $26,300;  at 
the  present  $249,350;  increase,  848  per  cent. 
The  Episcopal  residence,  including  the 
lots,  was  worth  $9,000.  Its  value  now  is 
$25,000;  increase,  177  per  cent.  Wolfe 
Hall,  building,  grounds  and  furniture,  was 
valued  at  $30,000.  Its  value  now  is  $80,000 
— an  increase  of  166  per  cent.  Jarvis  Hall 
had  cost  for  building  and  rebuilding,  with 
its  furniture  and  apparatus  $19,781.  Its 


TUB  COLORADO  MISSION. 


estimated  value  in  1874  was  $12,000.     Not 
withstanding    the     disastrous    fire,    which 
left  us   only  the  insurance    of    $8,903.72, 
the  value   of  its   present  lands  and  build 
ings    is    $50,000  —  an    increase   of   316  per 
cent.     Matthews  Hall,  at  Golden,  cost  $10,- 

trict,   just  entering  upon  its   first  stage  of 
growth,  there  would  be  ample  work  to  em 
ploy  their  energies,  and  noble  results  would 
crown  their  self-denying  labors.     With  our 
present  resources  we  are  almost  powerless  to 
penetrate  into  these  '  '  regions  beyond.  "     Our 

000      Matthews   Hall  in  Denver  is  worth  |  present  Missions  require  all  of  the  appropria- 
$15,000;  increase,  50  per  cent.     Jarvis  Hall 
Endowment  for  Theological  Education,  in 


real  estate,  was  estimated  in  1874  at  $13,000. 
Nine  years  later  its  value  is  $75,000 — an  in 
crease  of  477  per  cent.  This  and  all  our 
property  is  in  real  estate,  not  producing  in 
come,  and  most  of  it  is  taxable.  The  increase 
in  value  of  all  our  school  property  is  from 
$73,000  to  $220,000—201  per  cent. 

Such  have  been  some  of  our  gains.  It  is 
a  fair  showing.  It  gives  good  ground  for 
encouragement  and  confidence  as  to  future 
growth  and  prosperity.  There  is  much  that 
cannot  be  gathered  from  statistics.  The 
great  results  for  which  we  should  be,  above 
all  things,  solicitous,  the  coming  of  CHRIST'S 
spiritual  kingdom,  the  souls  gathered  in  and 
saved  in  CHRIST,  and  built  up  in  Him  and 
edified,  the  fulfilling  of  the  number  of  His 
elect — no  figures  can  tabulate  these  more 
substantial  gains. 

We  may  not  speak  too  confidently  of  the 
future  of  the  work.  There  are  many  dis 
couragements  which  those  long  on  the 
ground  only  can  appreciate,  peculiar  to  a 
mining  country.  "There  are  many  adver 
saries."  But  there  are  four  things  in  our 
mind  as  essential  to  be  done,  in  which  the 
whole  Church  can  aid  us. 
First,  as  to  our  Missions: 

There  are  portions  of  Colorado  now  open 
ing  up  to  settlement  many  times  as  large  as 
the  whole  field  of  1873.  The  North  Park, 
the  Middle  Park,  and  the  whole  vast  country 
west  of  them  to  Utah,  the  Ute  Indians  hav 
ing  been  removed,  are  attracting  investments 
and  population.  In  the  northwestern  quar 
ter,  as  in  the  southwestern  quarter  of  the 
State,  there  are  vast  areas  of  irrigable  land 
at  comparatively  low  altitudes.  There  are 
immense  ranges  of  the  finest  pasturage. 
There  are  vast  bodies  of  ore  believed  to  be 
rich,  in  many  locations,  awaiting  develop 
ment.  It  would  be  enough  to  do  to  enter 
and  cultivate  these  new  fields,  if  we  were 
free  of  all  other  labor  and  responsibility.  If 
the  western  one-third  of  Colorado  were 
made  a  separate  jurisdiction,  and  a  Bishop 
and  a  corps  of  Clergy  sent  to  this  new  dis- 


tion  the  Board  can  make.  We  cannot 
abandon  these  Missions.  Nor,  so  far  as  they 
are  in  mining  towns,  as  many  of  them  are, 
can  we  reasonably  expect  them  to  become 
self-supporting.  Indeed,  three  that  were 
strong  parishes  are  now  Missions  requiring 
aid.  The  obstacles,  from  lack  of  means  and 
men,  to  Church  extension  into  new  regions 
which  are  likely  to  be  better  and  more  en 
couraging  than  the  old,  seem  at  present  in 
surmountable.  It  is  the  saddest  of  all  possi 
ble  experiences  to  see  fields  lying  fallow  or 
worse,  that  we  ought  to  occupy  and  cultivate 
to  GOD'S  glory  and  the  salvation  of  souls! 
What  is  essential  then?  It  is  ESSENTIAL  that 
we  should  have  MEANS,  first,  to  employ  an 
EXTRA  force  of  Missionaries ;  secondly,  to  aid 
them  in  building  churches  and  parsonages. 
May  the  LORD  send  us  MEANS  and  MEN  ! 
Second,  as  to  our  Church  Schools: 

They  have  good  foundations.  They  are 
doing  noble  Christian  work.  Wolfe  Hall  is 
now  again — it  was  not  last  year — self-sup 
porting.  Jarvis  Hall  is  carried  on  by  the 
Principal  at  a  sacrifice,  its  patronage  being 
as  yet  insufficient.  Wolfe  Hall  is  now 
"down-town,"  almost  in  the  business  part 
of  the  city.  The  taxes  for  street  improve 
ments  seem  to  us  enormous,  when  we  are 
without  the  means  to  pay  them.  In  the  near 
future  we  must  move  out  to  what  will  be 
permanently  the  residence  portion  of  the  city. 
We  ought  to  secure  now,  during  the  ' '  hard 
times,"  when  the  price  of  such  real  estate  is 
not  advancing,  a  block  for  the  new  Wolfe 
Hall  site.  It  will  cost  from  $12,000  to 
$15,000.  We  need  help  to  secure  this,  and 
having  secured  it,  to  accumulate  a  fund  for 


the  new  building ;    and 
ought  to  be  $50,000. 


this  building  fund 
If  we  can  keep  the 


old  site,  it  will  be  a  valuable  endowment. 

Jarvis  Hall  has  already  a  new  site  about 
five  hundred  yards  from  the  Cathedral  Block. 
As  soon  as  the  school  shall  have  outgrown  its 
present  quarters,  it  is  hoped  that  the  Divin- 
ty  School  may  be  enabled  to  purchase  them 


for  its  uses  and   for  a 
Clergy.      The  valuation 


home  for  Mission 
is  about  $15,000. 


That  sum  doubled,    $30,000,   would  build 


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THE  COLOR. 


SI  ON. 


the  central  part  of  the  new  Boys'  School. 
If  Matthews  Hall  could  receive  now  a  gift  of 
$15,000  and  Jarvis  Hall  a  gift  of  $15,000, 
our  way  would  be  clear  to  a  grand  develop 
ment  of  school  and  Missionary  work.  These 
plans  commend  themselves  to  all  here  as 
wise  and  practicable.  May  they  commend 
themselves  to  some  to  whom  GOD  has  given 
ample  wealth,  who  will  see  that  we  lack  not 
means  to  realize  them !  They  are  Bishop 
Randall's  earliest  and  maturest  plans.  Are 
there  not  some  who  revere  his  memory  who 
would  feel  it  a  privilege  to  consummate, 
after  all  these  years  of  deferred  hope,  the 
chief  aim  of  his  Episcopate? 
Third,  as  to  the  Hospital: 

It  is  hindered  in  its  work  by  the  debt  of 
$4,000,  and  by  inability  to  support  the 
patients  who  come  to  us  who  cannot  pay  and 
cannot  be  rejected.  $3,000  endows  a  free 
cot  permanently;  $300  for  one  year.  We 
have  had  three  annual  endowments  thus  far, 
until  the  present  year,  and  now  we  have  but 
one  and  part  of  another,  and  the  demands 
for  free  beds  are  increasing  with  the  growing 
stringency  of  the  times.  The  debt  on  the 
property  and  the  debts  we  are  compelled  to 
incur  by  the  behests  of  charity  require  now 
to  be  provided  for.  And  we  ought  soon  to 
obtain  a  more  convenient  site  within  the  city 
on  which  ultimately  to  build,  so  as  to  use 
the  present  hospital  building  for  some  other 
charitable  purpose. 


Fourth,  as  to  Endowments: 

The  time  has  now  come  when  we  ought  to 
have  adequate  endowments  for  the  support 
of  the  Episcopate  and  for  the  support  of  Mis 
sionaries.  The  latter  is  quite  as  necessary  as 
the  former.  It  is  to  be  feared  that  these  en 
dowments  cannot  for  some  time  to  come  be 
raised  here,  in  this  frontier,  fluctuating, 
mining  country  of  (in  1880)  194, 000  popula 
tion.  It  is  surely  reasonable  to  expect  that 
aid  for  these  essential  objects  and  con 
ditions  of  success  and  growth,  should  be  ex 
tended,  from  some  whom  GOD  hath  blessed 
in  the  older  and  more  settled  communities. 
Let  none  fear  that  we  shall  fail  to  do  what 
we  can  to  put  responsibility  upon  our  peo 
ple  and  to  teach  them  to  give  and  work  for 
CHRIST  and  His  Church.  They  have  done 
and  are  doing  nobly.  But  if  they  are  to  do 
ALL  that  must  yet  be  done  in  the  Church 
for  Christian  education  and  for  Christian 
charity  and  for  the  endowments  that  are 
essential  to  the  permanency  and  success  of  the 
work  in  so  peculiarly  and  permanently  a  Mis 
sionary  diocese,  the  Church  must  wait 
patiently  for  the  results  so  many  are  in 
clined  to  look  for  immediately.  Let  prayers 
arise  from  all  devout  hearts  in.  the  Church 
that,  in  whatever  way  it  shall  please  GOD,  the 
early  promises  of  the  jurisdiction,  as  shown 
by  this  brief,  imperfect  sketch,  may  be  fully 
realized  to  the  praise  of  the  Glory  of  His 
Grace. 


